[46] The following table is from the _Chicago Tribune_. The number of legal executions in 1900 was 118, as compared with 131 in 1899, 109 in 1898, 128 in 1897, 122 in 1896, 132 in 1895, 132 in 1894, 126 in 1893, and 107 in 1892. The executions in the several States and Territories were in 1900 as follows: Alabama 4 Arkansas 0 California 5 Colorado 0 Connecticut 1 Delaware 0 Florida 1 Georgia 14 Idaho 2 Illinois 0 Indiana 0 Iowa 0 Kansas 0 Kentucky 0 Louisiana 6 Maine 0 Maryland 3 Massachusetts 0 Michigan 0 Minnesota 0 Mississippi 1 Missouri 3 Montana 3 Nebraska 0 New Jersey 4 New Hampshire 0 New York 3 Nevada 0 North Carolina 9 North Dakota 1 Ohio 1 Oregon 1 Pennsylvania 15 Rhode Island 0 South Carolina 3 South Dakota 0 Tennessee 4 Texas 18 Vermont 0 Virginia 7 West Virginia 0 Wisconsin 0 Wyoming 0 Washington 2 Arizona 4 District of Columbia 3 New Mexico 0 Utah 0 Indian Territory 0 Oklahoma 0 Alaska 0 There were 80 hanged in the South and 39 in the North, of whom 60 were whites, 58 were blacks, and one a Chinaman. The crimes for which they were executed were: murder, 113; rape, 5; arson, 1. Thus, of the 119 hangings, about two-thirds (80) were in the South and one-third (39) in the North; about one-half (60) of the entire number were of whites, and one-half (58) were of blacks. So, the South appears to have done its part in the matter of punishing by law as well as by violence. [47] See “The American Negro,” by William Hannibal Thomas, pp. 65, 177. CHAPTER V THE PARTIAL DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE NEGRO Among the various factors that have contributed to bring about the recrudescence of the Negro question in the last year or two a prominent one is the movement in the South to disfranchise the ignorant element of the Negro race. This is usually termed the “Disfranchisement of the Negro.” But although the object of the movement is frankly to disfranchise the large ignorant element among that race, while an ignorant element among the whites is left the ballot, the term is by no means exact. Few things are rarer yet nothing is more important than accuracy in definitions. In the matter under consideration much misapprehension exists as to the extent of the disfranchisement, and possibly more as to its effect. Reams of paper have been covered with frantic denunciation; courts have been appealed to; threats have been made against the Southern States of reducing their representation in Congress, and still the movement has gone on under the direction of the most enlightened and conservative men in the South. And so far as has yet been tested, it has proceeded by legal methods.